daystar

Example Sentences

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"A brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar."

From Time Magazine Archive

And lo, wonder of metempsychosis, it is she, the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

When the owls cry and the crickets chirp, my wife leaves my bed, and until the daystar appears, I lie alone, torn with curiosity, to know where she is, and what she is doing.

From Welsh Fairy Tales by Griffis, William Elliot

A star, a daystar, a firedrake, rose at his birth.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah